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by warner25 3y ago
I believe that this is ultimately supposed to replace not just the Black Hawk but the Army's Apache and Marine Corps' Cobra too. I recently had a conversation with a Marine Corps Cobra pilot who had real concerns about the configu
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, this took me back 25 years! My favorite use of these was by Upper Deck, the company that sells (sold?) baseball trading cards. Their 1999-2000 PowerDeck series was these baseball card size CD-ROMs that presented something like a DVD mo
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by warner25 3y ago
I also raised an eyebrow at the three web browsers, but then I was thinking that it's quite likely that none of them are reliable for opening a modern webpage, so users might have to routinely try more than one. I'm more amused by
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by warner25 3y ago
$25k in taxes on a $55k income? Where are you from? For a family in 2024, at the Federal level, the first $29,200 is untaxed because of the standard deduction. The remainder would be taxed at 10-12%. Child tax credits can easily wipe that o
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by warner25 3y ago
Good catch; I overlooked that line. I think we can take that as further proof that this article is not worth our attention. "401k" is obviously not an "expense" independent of the things that 401k savings are actually sp
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by warner25 3y ago
Sure, but after people stop working it's common for them to replace their working income with Social Security, other pensions, and withdrawals from retirement accounts in which their savings compounded over time. And the median househo
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by warner25 3y ago
Well, when you separate out housing, cars, health insurance, vacations, and education that doesn't leave a lot to fall specifically under the category of "children." If you pay for daycare, that's only a few years. For o
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by warner25 3y ago
I don't know why this would be unbelievable or "whopping." $3.3M over 60 years of adult life (age 20 to 80) is $55k/year. That's pretty close to the median American income.
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by warner25 3y ago
This captures a lot of how I feel too. I've said before that I use my phone very little, but it really needs to work when I need it, like to make or receive an urgent or emergency call or message (or increasingly, unfortunately and to
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by warner25 3y ago
This is about secrets, not data in plain sight, but: Ten years ago while working in a three-star military headquarters, I joked that we could give our adversaries full access to our SharePoint site and NAS on SIPRNet and they'd be more
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by warner25 3y ago
To your last point, I agree. I think that most people (including most people in uniform) don't realize how well it actually pays to be an officer. The corollary is that it's not easy to make much more by transitioning to the civil
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by warner25 3y ago
This comment has a lot more qualifiers than your previous comment, but I still think you're wildly overestimating things. Maybe everybody I know "just [doesn't] want to do one of the kinds of jobs that pay a premium for retir
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by warner25 3y ago
That chart for pay levels at different military ranks is not a good reference. It's only showing "basic pay." I recommend instead playing with this: https://militarypay.defense.gov/calculators/rmc-calcula
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by warner25 3y ago
As an active duty officer approaching 20 years of service myself, I think this is a good comment except for your first couple of statements. I'm very skeptical. I think that an enlisted service member who's good enough, and lucky
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by warner25 3y ago
They're having fewer difficulties than the Navy and Army, but recruiting has been a struggle for the Coast Guard too. Here's an article from earlier this month: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01
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by warner25 3y ago
I'll underscore this point. Basic training is not hard, and we really want people to pass. Like you said, if someone really wants to be there, we'll typically work with them for as long as necessary to get them through... second
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by warner25 3y ago
You don't have to go back that far. The Army, at least, lowered the bar in all kinds of ways circa 2006-2010. It went badly enough that senior Army leaders, in the midst of the current recruiting crisis, have been adamant that they won
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by warner25 3y ago
I can't speak specifically for the Navy, but as an Army officer I've been part of the pipeline that turns recruits into air traffic controllers, which is a pretty in-demand role. [I've also been part of the pipeline that turn
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by warner25 3y ago
This a nice, tight statement of the big picture. This isn't new, like since LLMs were born, either. In the aviation community, and probably many other domains, there has been a running debate for decades about the pros and cons of intr
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by warner25 3y ago
I like your take on this. I've been in awe of the explosive growth of software developer salaries, college CS departments, "learn to code" initiatives, etc. over the past 15 years and really wondering how long it can go on. O
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by warner25 3y ago
I've mostly dealt with RAND consultants in the military / government. They were brought in to help answer specific questions about what we should do and how, presumably by writing up and delivering a report. These weren't que
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by warner25 3y ago
To be clear, I do think that drinking would've helped me to make more friends and meet more girls (some guys asked me, incredulously, how I would ever meet girls if not at a kegger). But I didn't think that it would help me to mak
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by warner25 3y ago
No problem. I could see where the question came from.
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by warner25 3y ago
I love the points you made, and how well you articulated them.
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by warner25 3y ago
Yeah, as parents that's all we can do. I just want to underscore the sentiment of the original comment that - as a thought experiment - if it were possible to put the non-prescription or recreational drug genie back in the bottle someh
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by warner25 3y ago
I'd say alcohol too. I didn't drink in college, so I got a lot of questions about why not. I responded basically that I viewed it as not necessary and detrimental to reaching all of my goals - academic, financial, health, relation
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by warner25 3y ago
That's pretty much it. I've seen how market mechanisms and natural consequences don't necessarily lead to my kids making sound decisions. Before having kids I envisioned myself being a Laissez-faire parent. Now my wife tells
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by warner25 3y ago
I was a libertarian, and I still have some libertarian views, but I agree that my views have changed as I've gotten older and now have kids. In theory, I'm all for consenting adults doing whatever they want as long as it doesn&#x2
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by warner25 3y ago
I think there's a lot of stuff that's really hard to defend against once it's deployed, launched, or implanted. Think about small arms, artillery rounds, dumb bombs, land mines, or improvised roadside bombs. You have deceptio
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by warner25 3y ago
My wife is a stay-at-home mom, so she's mostly the parent with the kids in the middle of the day. I think my wife first showed Bluey at the recommendation of one our friends. When I'm working from home, I'm not in the same ro

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